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Auggie

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2. Needs assistance from the Federal Government that won't be coming anytime soon

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Wed Jul 23, 2025, 06:04 PM

Jul 23

Aside from better paying union jobs, higher corporate taxes, and more social spending, I can envision a short-term solution like mobile parks, similar to the New Deal WPA kind of the 30s. If you're familiar with the 1940s film The Grapes of Wrath, you know what I'm referring to -- U.S. government sanctioned and managed.

Won't happen under this administration. California could do it, though under current environmental law and building and sanitation codes, not to mention NIMBY reaction, it would be a miracle.

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San Francisco bans homeless people from living in RVs with new parking limit [View all] Eugene Jul 23 OP

This is going to be an ongoing problem not just in Calif., but in a lot of locations where real estate prices have SWBTATTReg Jul 23 #1

Needs assistance from the Federal Government that won't be coming anytime soon Auggie Jul 23 #2